I already built Conina as a follower, but didn't place her in the game world.
I'm considering putting her in the Sleeping Giant in Riverwood, so potential Nijels can find her early in the game.
My Nijel has just started Lakevoew Manor, and she saw the small house and thought it would be perfect as a hairdressing salon, especially as the main house behind it can have an alternative entrance from any balcony. So I'm thinking for Lakeview only, take away the Entryway option, and replace with Salon.
So what equipment would a Tamriel hairdressing salon contain? Chair for the customer with plenty of space around it Large bowl and jug for washing, but what else? Large mirrors seem to be unknown. Small ones would be rare, too, and the game engine doesn't offer a reflective surface for one.
Full Version: Conina the Hairdresser
Well, lots of bottles and jars of nice smelling shampoos and conditioners of course. 
I'm not sure if the scripting will work yet, but I leapt into the CK and did a layout, subject to change.
Here's a screen shot from the CK preview window, so you can see the outside of the front wall. There's very little clutter at present, as much of it will probably be custom, such as brushes, combs, scissors, shampoo and conditioner etc. The workbench for furnishing it will go when completed, but I have it there so I don't place anything to conflict.
The idea is that the Lakeview house will lose the "Entryway" option, and get "Salon" instead. That way you can build the small house and use it as before, but clear and re-decorate when you have the larger part done. It would make sense to have the home part entered via a second entrance, but the balcony options (bedroom, storeroom, armory) provide that already. I did think of requiring one of those, but it's an extra complication that's not needed.
And I need towels. I'm sure one of the bathing mods has those - need to go hunting.
Here's a screen shot from the CK preview window, so you can see the outside of the front wall. There's very little clutter at present, as much of it will probably be custom, such as brushes, combs, scissors, shampoo and conditioner etc. The workbench for furnishing it will go when completed, but I have it there so I don't place anything to conflict.
The idea is that the Lakeview house will lose the "Entryway" option, and get "Salon" instead. That way you can build the small house and use it as before, but clear and re-decorate when you have the larger part done. It would make sense to have the home part entered via a second entrance, but the balcony options (bedroom, storeroom, armory) provide that already. I did think of requiring one of those, but it's an extra complication that's not needed.
And I need towels. I'm sure one of the bathing mods has those - need to go hunting.
I made a folded towel mesh to use in the Salon, and it took forever to get it looking even moderately right. It still needs a proper texture and normal map.
The only scissors in the game are the embalmers' tools, and not very hairdresser, so that's another mesh needed. We'll also want a comb, hairbrush and probably a few re-textured bottles.
The only scissors in the game are the embalmers' tools, and not very hairdresser, so that's another mesh needed. We'll also want a comb, hairbrush and probably a few re-textured bottles.
Gotta have a mirror!
If you can get the Skyrim engine to do ray-traced reflections, ...
However, that does remind me that the scissors will need reflective mapping (cube map and mask) so they're properly shiny.
I might even try a really shiny hand-mirror that would be too small to see much. You only get a cubemap (baked in) reflection, so no face possible, but with a cubemap of the room it's in, it might look OK. I note that ESO has established that hand-mirrors, at least, have existed for centuries before Skyrim. They are likely the polished metal plate kind, rather than back-silvered glass.
However, that does remind me that the scissors will need reflective mapping (cube map and mask) so they're properly shiny.
I might even try a really shiny hand-mirror that would be too small to see much. You only get a cubemap (baked in) reflection, so no face possible, but with a cubemap of the room it's in, it might look OK. I note that ESO has established that hand-mirrors, at least, have existed for centuries before Skyrim. They are likely the polished metal plate kind, rather than back-silvered glass.
QUOTE(ghastley @ May 3 2017, 09:19 PM) 
If you can get the Skyrim engine to do ray-traced reflections, ...
However, that does remind me that the scissors will need reflective mapping (cube map and mask) so they're properly shiny.
I might even try a really shiny hand-mirror that would be too small to see much. You only get a cubemap (baked in) reflection, so no face possible, but with a cubemap of the room it's in, it might look OK. I note that ESO has established that hand-mirrors, at least, have existed for centuries before Skyrim. They are likely the polished metal plate kind, rather than back-silvered glass.
Yeah definitely. Like highly polished copper or something.
I've been making stuff
A sign for outside the Salon.
Towels and the tools of the trade - small mirror, comb, hairbrush, and some more scissors. Close up.
Now comes the tedious part of altering the scripts, making build tokens, and testing that it all works.
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And Bethesda made it just about impossible. I have managed to butcher the formlists to allow the Salon items at the alternate workbench, and replace the Room1B ref array with my own, but I can't get the Drafting Table to change the remodel item from Entryway to Salon, and I can't make the Remove Salon Workbench work.
The problem is that the design enforces the houses being identical, by having the formlists as properties of the shared building script, instead of allowing them to be properties of the individual houses. I don't think I can have the Salon for Lakeview without doing it for Windstad and Haljaaarchen as well.
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I made some progress, but having to start a new game for each test gets tiring quickly. The construction basically works, although I still have some glitches to iron out. Since the main pieces are working, I can add further clutter as enable children of those.
I'm also making a "lite" version for use after the game is started, which will simply place all the stuff in an small home/entryway if you leave it empty. No workbench, and no construction, but you get a Salon and sign when you advance the quest. My quest can test the stage of the BYOHHouseFalkreath one to know if it's reasonable to do so. That will help me test out the clutter, as I can just copy it back to the other one.
I'm also checking out alternative hairstyles for Conina, and even thinking she might get a script to change it periodically, alternating between elaborate and looser styles, maybe two or three of each. They'd all need around the same hair length to look credible. No player choice involved, probably happens when player sleeps.
Also on the to-do list: making some of the equipment into "weapons" so they can be held in the hand. That needs collision geometry, which is tricky, and usually means borrowing it from another item that's near enough the same size.
Conina now also has an alternate "armored" outfit. Any resemblance to Red Sonja's is purely coincidence, and she's not going to dye her hair. My thought is that there will be a dialog option, along the lines of "don't you think you could use some armor if we're getting into so many fights?" that will make her switch. Thereafter, maybe she switches when you go into/leave town.
That picture was taken from her own game. The "light" version of the mod lets you enable the NPC follower and the Salon furnishings independently, so hers has only the Salon. Nijel (there are several of him) uses the full version and builds the Salon piece by piece.
Stop Press!! Her armored outfit has another detail added.
A sign for outside the Salon.
Towels and the tools of the trade - small mirror, comb, hairbrush, and some more scissors. Close up.
Now comes the tedious part of altering the scripts, making build tokens, and testing that it all works.
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And Bethesda made it just about impossible. I have managed to butcher the formlists to allow the Salon items at the alternate workbench, and replace the Room1B ref array with my own, but I can't get the Drafting Table to change the remodel item from Entryway to Salon, and I can't make the Remove Salon Workbench work.
The problem is that the design enforces the houses being identical, by having the formlists as properties of the shared building script, instead of allowing them to be properties of the individual houses. I don't think I can have the Salon for Lakeview without doing it for Windstad and Haljaaarchen as well.
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I made some progress, but having to start a new game for each test gets tiring quickly. The construction basically works, although I still have some glitches to iron out. Since the main pieces are working, I can add further clutter as enable children of those.
I'm also making a "lite" version for use after the game is started, which will simply place all the stuff in an small home/entryway if you leave it empty. No workbench, and no construction, but you get a Salon and sign when you advance the quest. My quest can test the stage of the BYOHHouseFalkreath one to know if it's reasonable to do so. That will help me test out the clutter, as I can just copy it back to the other one.
I'm also checking out alternative hairstyles for Conina, and even thinking she might get a script to change it periodically, alternating between elaborate and looser styles, maybe two or three of each. They'd all need around the same hair length to look credible. No player choice involved, probably happens when player sleeps.
Also on the to-do list: making some of the equipment into "weapons" so they can be held in the hand. That needs collision geometry, which is tricky, and usually means borrowing it from another item that's near enough the same size.
Conina now also has an alternate "armored" outfit. Any resemblance to Red Sonja's is purely coincidence, and she's not going to dye her hair. My thought is that there will be a dialog option, along the lines of "don't you think you could use some armor if we're getting into so many fights?" that will make her switch. Thereafter, maybe she switches when you go into/leave town.
That picture was taken from her own game. The "light" version of the mod lets you enable the NPC follower and the Salon furnishings independently, so hers has only the Salon. Nijel (there are several of him) uses the full version and builds the Salon piece by piece.
Stop Press!! Her armored outfit has another detail added.
Making the hairdresser tools "wieldable" has been fun. The common knife and fork aren't weapons, just misc items, but they do have provision for blood decals in the nif's. Weapons have to have 1st person meshes (without scabbards) separate from the weapon mesh. Both have blood decal support. The first person mesh is a static, not a weapon, or a misc item. They all have collision boxes, so I've replaced the mesh in a dagger of appropriate size for now. That's giving me some issues with putting them down, as they don't lie flat or on the right side, or ...
The hairbrush is a particular problem, as the natural way to hold one is with the bristles facing inward, but when held in the left hand, they face out. This is because blades face down, rather than in/out. I'm trying to determine if left/right weapons are supported. Spells, which don't need to act differently, do come in left and right varieties, and I haven't figured out why.
The hairbrush is a particular problem, as the natural way to hold one is with the bristles facing inward, but when held in the left hand, they face out. This is because blades face down, rather than in/out. I'm trying to determine if left/right weapons are supported. Spells, which don't need to act differently, do come in left and right varieties, and I haven't figured out why.
The sticking point with the Conina (full) mod is the control of the workbench for the Salon. When you select "Remodel the House" at the drafting table, I need the Salon workbench enabled in place of the Entryway one, and it's proving reluctant. If I manually enable it, all the building goes well.
The big hassle with this is that it means changes to the properties of a "start enabled" quest, so each time I change it, I need to start a fresh character from the cart ride. Even the initial autosave is too late. And then the character has to "do" a couple of quests for Siddgeir before he can buy the land. Even using the console to bypass things doesn't speed it up much.
The light version, where you console-set stages of a quest to enable Conina herself, or the Salon content, (or both) works well enough. That may end up being the only one I release. I'm using that to fiddle with the cluttering and then using TES5Edit to clone the content to the other.
I've added a bit of dialogue to let the player control Conina's outfit, so she can put on her dress or armour if she's not currently wearing it. The armour is "levelled", with either steel or plate boots, gauntlets (and circlet), as two complete outfits.
The wall shelves may get the "bookshelf/weapon rack" treatment, to allow the player to place statues of Dibella they've collected. The one in Broken Tower Redoubt respawns, so the supply is unlimited, if slow. Others appear in random loot, and there are three quest items (Haelga's, Lisbet's, and the one in the Temple) that could be kept. Several of my earlier characters collected them in the cellar, instead of making the shrines.
The big hassle with this is that it means changes to the properties of a "start enabled" quest, so each time I change it, I need to start a fresh character from the cart ride. Even the initial autosave is too late. And then the character has to "do" a couple of quests for Siddgeir before he can buy the land. Even using the console to bypass things doesn't speed it up much.
The light version, where you console-set stages of a quest to enable Conina herself, or the Salon content, (or both) works well enough. That may end up being the only one I release. I'm using that to fiddle with the cluttering and then using TES5Edit to clone the content to the other.
I've added a bit of dialogue to let the player control Conina's outfit, so she can put on her dress or armour if she's not currently wearing it. The armour is "levelled", with either steel or plate boots, gauntlets (and circlet), as two complete outfits.
The wall shelves may get the "bookshelf/weapon rack" treatment, to allow the player to place statues of Dibella they've collected. The one in Broken Tower Redoubt respawns, so the supply is unlimited, if slow. Others appear in random loot, and there are three quest items (Haelga's, Lisbet's, and the one in the Temple) that could be kept. Several of my earlier characters collected them in the cellar, instead of making the shrines.
I spent a lot of time this weekend trying to get the bugs out of the Conina full version. Since the Hearthfires quests start the game enabled, I can only test my changes by beginning a new game, with all the unskippable cinematics. I was seriously tempted to install an alternate start mod to speed it all up. A run from beginning to Lakeview Salon and Hall built takes nearly an hour, and a third of that is the Chargen scene, with almost another third being Helgen.
I still have a few things to tidy up, but I believe those are all ones that won't need a new game to test them. One is that the shelves are supposed to have display positions for the gold Dibella statues, but the activators aren't enabling with their parent shelf at present. The other is the removal of the Salon workbench, which is parented to the Entryway one that's now below the floor.
And since I got tired of creating a new Nijel every time, I made myself a Rincewind this time. The hat needs some more work, but the re-texture of the college master robes to a faded red has worked out better than I expected. I may add those to her inventory so you can take them once she's recruited. I think I found a player-only setting somewhere, but I don't know if that prevents her from carrying them. I took the hat mesh from a female outfit, so I'm still fiddling with Size and placement. I may download one that already has that work done, and just re-texture it. I want a more Skyrim, less Discworld version, so having "Wizzard" on it isn't in the plans.
And at the end I need to clone some of it into the "light" version for games in progress. That's not BYO, but just places all the Salon stuff at once into an empty entryway. I suspect that will be more popular, as actually doing the work is not for many.
Edit: The inactivable activators turned (sic) out to be the zrot=0 bug, so they're now 1 degree twisted, and working.
It's almost time to package it up!
I still have a few things to tidy up, but I believe those are all ones that won't need a new game to test them. One is that the shelves are supposed to have display positions for the gold Dibella statues, but the activators aren't enabling with their parent shelf at present. The other is the removal of the Salon workbench, which is parented to the Entryway one that's now below the floor.
And since I got tired of creating a new Nijel every time, I made myself a Rincewind this time. The hat needs some more work, but the re-texture of the college master robes to a faded red has worked out better than I expected. I may add those to her inventory so you can take them once she's recruited. I think I found a player-only setting somewhere, but I don't know if that prevents her from carrying them. I took the hat mesh from a female outfit, so I'm still fiddling with Size and placement. I may download one that already has that work done, and just re-texture it. I want a more Skyrim, less Discworld version, so having "Wizzard" on it isn't in the plans.
And at the end I need to clone some of it into the "light" version for games in progress. That's not BYO, but just places all the Salon stuff at once into an empty entryway. I suspect that will be more popular, as actually doing the work is not for many.
Edit: The inactivable activators turned (sic) out to be the zrot=0 bug, so they're now 1 degree twisted, and working.
It's almost time to package it up!
I've started to gather the pieces together for a beta release. The stuff I added to the full version (which requires that you start a new game, because it changes the properties of the building quest) is cloned to the light version (which you can add to a game in-progress). I've started compiling the documentation - readme and wiki pages.
It will be for LE first, as you can convert up to SE, but not the other way. It will probably never see XBox1, as I'm losing patience with that crowd. Since I don't have one, it will just be for the versions I run.
I intend to provide Rincewind's hat and robe, and presets for both Nijel and Rincewind, as part of the package. Nijel works with hide gear plus iron helmet, without my making any special outfit for him. Neither would make a suitable NPC, as they were written to be combat-challenged, but you can play them any way you want.
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Rincewind just did Hircine's quest (first time any player character of mine has done so). He spared the werewolf, as neither reward meant anything to him, and rings are light to carry.
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I realised that Conina's outfits were built on the XPMSE skeleton (with all the extra jiggly bones) so they needed to be re-done without, or that would be an unnecessary pre-requisite. So one step back ...
It will be for LE first, as you can convert up to SE, but not the other way. It will probably never see XBox1, as I'm losing patience with that crowd. Since I don't have one, it will just be for the versions I run.
I intend to provide Rincewind's hat and robe, and presets for both Nijel and Rincewind, as part of the package. Nijel works with hide gear plus iron helmet, without my making any special outfit for him. Neither would make a suitable NPC, as they were written to be combat-challenged, but you can play them any way you want.
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Rincewind just did Hircine's quest (first time any player character of mine has done so). He spared the werewolf, as neither reward meant anything to him, and rings are light to carry.
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I realised that Conina's outfits were built on the XPMSE skeleton (with all the extra jiggly bones) so they needed to be re-done without, or that would be an unnecessary pre-requisite. So one step back ...
I need to get back to this and finish packaging. Or else I'll start making Smurfette's house a Build Grow Your Own one. (And the thing that's holding me back is deciding where to put the "workbench" - which probably wouldn't be one, but more like the stump for the Bosmer Den).
I've run through the full build version with a few Nijels, and the "setstage" build with Rincewind, but need to take the characters u a few more levels to test Conina's viability as a follower without extra armour. Once you re-dress her, she's just another follower, so I may need to find a way to buff her dependent on retaining her dedicated clothing.
I've run through the full build version with a few Nijels, and the "setstage" build with Rincewind, but need to take the characters u a few more levels to test Conina's viability as a follower without extra armour. Once you re-dress her, she's just another follower, so I may need to find a way to buff her dependent on retaining her dedicated clothing.
So I got around to working on this at the weekend. There are five varieties to work on at once: LE full, LE light, SE full, SE light, and Xbox, which only gets full, as the light version requires the use of console commands. Most of the effort was in consolidating meshes and textures into dedicated folders, which means editing all the meshes for the new texture locations.
To make it really laborious, the full versions require starting a new game to test them. I override an item that gets baked in the moment the game starts, so there's no way around testing from new. Even a save after chargen is too late. I'm shortening it with Skyrim Unbound and LAL, but a test run still takes forever.
Still, I did get to run two SE Nijels and a Rincewind through construction, and found what I hope are all the bugs. Some were in the LE version before porting, so I had to port the fixes back, as well. There's a good chance I may eventually get this project finished.
I still need to decide how to make the Rincewind outfit available on XBox1. I may just have Lucan sell it.
To make it really laborious, the full versions require starting a new game to test them. I override an item that gets baked in the moment the game starts, so there's no way around testing from new. Even a save after chargen is too late. I'm shortening it with Skyrim Unbound and LAL, but a test run still takes forever.
Still, I did get to run two SE Nijels and a Rincewind through construction, and found what I hope are all the bugs. Some were in the LE version before porting, so I had to port the fixes back, as well. There's a good chance I may eventually get this project finished.
I still need to decide how to make the Rincewind outfit available on XBox1. I may just have Lucan sell it.
If anyone wants to test this for Oldrim, it's on my site now.
Conina_02 - unlinked as it's broken, new one soon.
Conina_04
There are two versions in that file. One for starting a new game (must be installed before starting or it won't work), and the other for installing into an existing game. The latter won't let you make the Salon furnishings, just dump them all into an empty Small House via the console.
And if you prefer SE, use this link.
The SE version didn't have the packaging errors of the LE one, so this is still current.
Obviously Hearthfires is required, but so is XPMSE - the skeleton is needed by her armour outfit.
Conina_04
There are two versions in that file. One for starting a new game (must be installed before starting or it won't work), and the other for installing into an existing game. The latter won't let you make the Salon furnishings, just dump them all into an empty Small House via the console.
And if you prefer SE, use this link.
The SE version didn't have the packaging errors of the LE one, so this is still current.
Obviously Hearthfires is required, but so is XPMSE - the skeleton is needed by her armour outfit.
I need to find out what the current skeleton support is on XBox. Conina jiggles, (but only when she's "armoured") which means she needs the XPMSE skeleton for the extra bones, but I don't recall the state of that for XBox. The jiggle itself requires FNIS for the animation change, which won't work there, so the skeleton may or may not have been ported. It would only be needed for compatibility of meshes with SE on PC, so it's doubtful.
I won't port to XBox if that means rebuilding things.
Google shows me a WIP with next to no detail, so it may have been ported for compatibility only. However, I'm reluctant to have a WIP as a pre-requisite.
I won't port to XBox if that means rebuilding things.
Google shows me a WIP with next to no detail, so it may have been ported for compatibility only. However, I'm reluctant to have a WIP as a pre-requisite.
I got as far as creating the Nexus entry for this some time back, and held off from publishing while I fixed some bugs in the override of the vanilla quest. It's still in unpublished state waiting for me to commit a new file. I need to get back to this sometime, but ESO has taken over for now.
Edit 04/23/2018 : No change. ESO's dailies (mount training, crafting etc.) are sucking up way too much time. And once I'm on, then the main characters need to advance their questlines, and Skyrim/Oblivion/Morrowind don't get anything left over. Even with visits to the Rift, Anvil, Vaardenfell reminding me of unfinished business.
I'll probably end up making an ESO add-on, and only then get back to earlier games.
Edit 04/23/2018 : No change. ESO's dailies (mount training, crafting etc.) are sucking up way too much time. And once I'm on, then the main characters need to advance their questlines, and Skyrim/Oblivion/Morrowind don't get anything left over. Even with visits to the Rift, Anvil, Vaardenfell reminding me of unfinished business.
I'll probably end up making an ESO add-on, and only then get back to earlier games.
Finally flipped the switch and let this one loose on the Nexus..
The full mod needs a new game, and I expect that a lot will try to install it on top of a save at the exit from the starter dungeon, and wonder why it doesn't work.
The light version, where it all just appears into an empty small house, will still confuse many, as you have to open the console and type in the setstage command.
The full mod needs a new game, and I expect that a lot will try to install it on top of a save at the exit from the starter dungeon, and wonder why it doesn't work.
The light version, where it all just appears into an empty small house, will still confuse many, as you have to open the console and type in the setstage command.
Awesome. I'll be raiding some of your Skyrim mods this winter, hopefully.
QUOTE(ghastley @ May 3 2017, 10:19 PM)
If you can get the Skyrim engine to do ray-traced reflections, ...
However, that does remind me that the scissors will need reflective mapping (cube map and mask) so they're properly shiny.
I might even try a really shiny hand-mirror that would be too small to see much. You only get a cubemap (baked in) reflection, so no face possible, but with a cubemap of the room it's in, it might look OK. I note that ESO has established that hand-mirrors, at least, have existed for centuries before Skyrim. They are likely the polished metal plate kind, rather than back-silvered glass.
Bubba admires the hairstyle Conina gave him in his polished metal plate mirror at some point early in the 2nd Era...
https://imgur.com/E9G78Ct
By the way, I had some favorite towels from Oblivion that were made by Riley Marks in Oblivion = I got RM's permission to bring them to Skyrim; (along with my favorite food and dishes from RM) and a friend of mine (Tamira) did the conversion to Skyrim for me. Tamira made a mod of the food/dishes and got permission from RM to post them as resources in Skyrim:
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/63446
- not sure if she ever put one up for the towels; but they were gorgeous. They were the same towels used by "The OR Team" for their renovations in the Imperial City (Tiber Septim is the one I saw them in) and the same towels used by FlintOne for Theryon. FlintOne did bring some of his Oblivion stuff over to Skyrim, some gorgeous coffee cups and sugar cubes, awesome chairs, etc.
(In case you need them for your shop: FlintOne's coffee cups brought to Skyrim; I used my some different textures for this screen) =
https://imgur.com/1inkjii
I did try learning how to convert stuff from Oblivion to Skyrim, but it was way over my abilities, lol. Tamira got very good at it, though; and was sweet enough to help me.
Here is an image of Riley Marks' towels; but in my game I used different textures on them that I pulled from FlintOne's Theryon and some I found from clothing mods to get a thicker terry look to the towels:
https://staticdelivery.nexusmods.com/mods/1...-1375402699.jpg
QUOTE(ghastley @ May 2 2017, 10:59 AM)
I made a folded towel mesh to use in the Salon, and it took forever to get it looking even moderately right. It still needs a proper texture and normal map.
The only scissors in the game are the embalmers' tools, and not very hairdresser, so that's another mesh needed. We'll also want a comb, hairbrush and probably a few re-textured bottles.
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I've been making stuff
A sign for outside the Salon.
Towels and the tools of the trade - small mirror, comb, hairbrush, and some more scissors. Close up.
Now comes the tedious part of altering the scripts, making build tokens, and testing that it all works.
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And Bethesda made it just about impossible. I have managed to butcher the formlists to allow the Salon items at the alternate workbench, and replace the Room1B ref array with my own, but I can't get the Drafting Table to change the remodel item from Entryway to Salon, and I can't make the Remove Salon Workbench work.
The problem is that the design enforces the houses being identical, by having the formlists as properties of the shared building script, instead of allowing them to be properties of the individual houses. I don't think I can have the Salon for Lakeview without doing it for Windstad and Haljaaarchen as well.
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I made some progress, but having to start a new game for each test gets tiring quickly. The construction basically works, although I still have some glitches to iron out. Since the main pieces are working, I can add further clutter as enable children of those.
I'm also making a "lite" version for use after the game is started, which will simply place all the stuff in an small home/entryway if you leave it empty. No workbench, and no construction, but you get a Salon and sign when you advance the quest. My quest can test the stage of the BYOHHouseFalkreath one to know if it's reasonable to do so. That will help me test out the clutter, as I can just copy it back to the other one.
I'm also checking out alternative hairstyles for Conina, and even thinking she might get a script to change it periodically, alternating between elaborate and looser styles, maybe two or three of each. They'd all need around the same hair length to look credible. No player choice involved, probably happens when player sleeps.
Also on the to-do list: making some of the equipment into "weapons" so they can be held in the hand. That needs collision geometry, which is tricky, and usually means borrowing it from another item that's near enough the same size.
Conina now also has an alternate "armored" outfit. Any resemblance to Red Sonja's is purely coincidence, and she's not going to dye her hair. My thought is that there will be a dialog option, along the lines of "don't you think you could use some armor if we're getting into so many fights?" that will make her switch. Thereafter, maybe she switches when you go into/leave town.
That picture was taken from her own game. The "light" version of the mod lets you enable the NPC follower and the Salon furnishings independently, so hers has only the Salon. Nijel (there are several of him) uses the full version and builds the Salon piece by piece.
Stop Press!! Her armored outfit has another detail added.
I LOVE your signs! Oh, and you already made the towels; and the tools too! These are amazing, they look perfect!!!! Does the hairbrush cause any lag? It is so detailed!!! One thing I loved about your Oblivion mods was your focus on the tiniest details = made your meshes so perfect!
JBVW put out a bottle resource that had some perfect salon style bottles in it (for Oblivion, though; so once again = would need converting). I think I retextured a couple of them and used them in my Fallout 3 mods for shampoo and hair conditioner:
https://imgur.com/lhIiWW6
BWAAHAAA!!!!! LOVE the armor !!!!!!
Conversions from one game to another tend to be easier if you have the original blender, Maya or 3DS MAX files to start from.
However, that can cause problems with attribution when you publish a mod. For example this dress was adapted from a statue of Hebe mesh that Tamira also put into Oblivion/Skyrim as a static. I didn't work from her mod, but from the original blender file that we both downloaded from a free 3D site. We each made changes to the texture, in my case adding transparency for the dress, and in hers adding foliage, as she'd put a plant in Hebe's cup. So the results were independent, but if you see both together, the common origin is obvious.
To further confuse matters, we had the same model, but got it from different sites, where the author's names differed.
I can't remember which one it was, but I had a complaint on one of my Oblivion mods that I'd stolen a mesh from another game. Which was partially true, as it was one of mine in that game, too, but a group effort without our individual names/handles.
However, that can cause problems with attribution when you publish a mod. For example this dress was adapted from a statue of Hebe mesh that Tamira also put into Oblivion/Skyrim as a static. I didn't work from her mod, but from the original blender file that we both downloaded from a free 3D site. We each made changes to the texture, in my case adding transparency for the dress, and in hers adding foliage, as she'd put a plant in Hebe's cup. So the results were independent, but if you see both together, the common origin is obvious.
To further confuse matters, we had the same model, but got it from different sites, where the author's names differed.
I can't remember which one it was, but I had a complaint on one of my Oblivion mods that I'd stolen a mesh from another game. Which was partially true, as it was one of mine in that game, too, but a group effort without our individual names/handles.
QUOTE(ghastley @ Jun 5 2017, 12:41 PM)
Making the hairdresser tools "wieldable" has been fun. The common knife and fork aren't weapons, just misc items, but they do have provision for blood decals in the nif's. Weapons have to have 1st person meshes (without scabbards) separate from the weapon mesh. Both have blood decal support. The first person mesh is a static, not a weapon, or a misc item. They all have collision boxes, so I've replaced the mesh in a dagger of appropriate size for now. That's giving me some issues with putting them down, as they don't lie flat or on the right side, or ...
The hairbrush is a particular problem, as the natural way to hold one is with the bristles facing inward, but when held in the left hand, they face out. This is because blades face down, rather than in/out. I'm trying to determine if left/right weapons are supported. Spells, which don't need to act differently, do come in left and right varieties, and I haven't figured out why.
Don't they have a rolling pin weapon? Maybe that would work better than the dagger?
On the spells, I always thought it was destruction magic on the right hand and mysticism (or something) on the left; but in Skyrim you could do destruction magic with two hands, so I couldn't figure that out either.
Skyrim had so many quirks for modders, it was more frustrating to me than Oblivion ever was (but not as frustrating as Morrowind was imho, lol).
You mentioned the children and grandchildren thing on one of your posts = that was AWFUL! If you tried to alter anything already in the game, you couldn't (or rather, I couldn't) undo the way that THEY had it set up. They had balloons in the void outside the interior cells (that made sure everything went back to where it had been originally on loading into that cell). So everything I did got screwed on loading into the cell. I tried deleting stuff from the balloons, and that really messed things up; had to scrap the mod and start over.
And there are some with invisible children. I completely wiped clean a structure and copy/pasted it on the other side of the map; but the empty structure brought with it some kind of spawn of assassins. So whenever I got into my new house in game, assassins would appear and attack me. And I scrub-searched that house till I found the spawn and deleted it; only to have it reset itself the next time I loaded it in.
I kind of learned that you HAVE to make your own stuff from scratch in Skyrim; at least I did because I couldn't undo Bethesda's locked down way of keeping modders from being able to alter things to suit themselves. (and as you probably already know about me, I didn't like a messy dirty house,
)QUOTE(mALX @ Oct 9 2018, 01:17 PM)
QUOTE(ghastley @ Jun 5 2017, 12:41 PM)
Making the hairdresser tools "wieldable" has been fun. The common knife and fork aren't weapons, just misc items, but they do have provision for blood decals in the nif's. Weapons have to have 1st person meshes (without scabbards) separate from the weapon mesh. Both have blood decal support. The first person mesh is a static, not a weapon, or a misc item. They all have collision boxes, so I've replaced the mesh in a dagger of appropriate size for now. That's giving me some issues with putting them down, as they don't lie flat or on the right side, or ...
The hairbrush is a particular problem, as the natural way to hold one is with the bristles facing inward, but when held in the left hand, they face out. This is because blades face down, rather than in/out. I'm trying to determine if left/right weapons are supported. Spells, which don't need to act differently, do come in left and right varieties, and I haven't figured out why.
Don't they have a rolling pin weapon? Maybe that would work better than the dagger?
The main reason I used the dagger was that it had a clear single edge to the blade to show its orientation. The handles on the brush, comb, etc are flattened and would only be comfortable to hold one way. A rolling pin is radially symmetric, so you can't line things up very easily.
QUOTE(ghastley @ Oct 9 2018, 01:17 PM)
Conversions from one game to another tend to be easier if you have the original blender, Maya or 3DS MAX files to start from.
However, that can cause problems with attribution when you publish a mod. For example this dress was adapted from a statue of Hebe mesh that Tamira also put into Oblivion/Skyrim as a static. I didn't work from her mod, but from the original blender file that we both downloaded from a free 3D site. We each made changes to the texture, in my case adding transparency for the dress, and in hers adding foliage, as she'd put a plant in Hebe's cup. So the results were independent, but if you see both together, the common origin is obvious.
To further confuse matters, we had the same model, but got it from different sites, where the author's names differed.
I can't remember which one it was, but I had a complaint on one of my Oblivion mods that I'd stolen a mesh from another game. Which was partially true, as it was one of mine in that game, too, but a group effort without our individual names/handles.
I actually used Tamira's leafy version in my house in Skyrim and if I'm not mistaken = used one without the leaves and either in a see through dress or nude in my Crassius Curio Art Exhibit in Oblivion). If I can ever get into my laptop again I'll copy all my mods and screenshots and move them to my new PC.
By the way; my new PC is 64 bit. Can Oblivion even play on it? I've not been able to get it to play without crashing; and can't even use the CS anymore = it throws an error message and crashes too. I have them on my "E" drive; which for some reason the builder did not put program files (86) in. Should I try to reinstall it on the C drive program files (86)? (oops, sorry - off topic).
QUOTE(ghastley @ Jun 15 2017, 08:58 AM)
I've started to gather the pieces together for a beta release. The stuff I added to the full version (which requires that you start a new game, because it changes the properties of the building quest) is cloned to the light version (which you can add to a game in-progress). I've started compiling the documentation - readme and wiki pages.
It will be for LE first, as you can convert up to SE, but not the other way. It will probably never see XBox1, as I'm losing patience with that crowd. Since I don't have one, it will just be for the versions I run.
I intend to provide Rincewind's hat and robe, and presets for both Nijel and Rincewind, as part of the package. Nijel works with hide gear plus iron helmet, without my making any special outfit for him. Neither would make a suitable NPC, as they were written to be combat-challenged, but you can play them any way you want.
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Rincewind just did Hircine's quest (first time any player character of mine has done so). He spared the werewolf, as neither reward meant anything to him, and rings are light to carry.
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I realised that Conina's outfits were built on the XPMSE skeleton (with all the extra jiggly bones) so they needed to be re-done without, or that would be an unnecessary pre-requisite. So one step back ...
BWAAAHAAA!!! How did I know Corina would have BBB? Lol.
I don't ever install games in Program Files folders. I keep those for the OS itself, and install directly into a Games folder. I go a step further, and I have C:\Users re-directed to D:\Users, so the saves etc. go on that drive. That's because C is a SSD, with limited capacity compared with D being a good old spinning disk, with many times the space.
Separating Games means that permissions to save all-user settings etc. aren't the same level of access as updating the OS. Most games have the global option for all users separate form the per-user ones these days, but installing into the same library as Windows itself is a bad idea, anyway. You don't want Windows Update wiping out games by mistake.
32/64 operation isn't determined by which folders things load from. Those attributes are in the exe headers, and Windows isn't bad at running mixed-mode if a 32-bit program calls a 64-bit one or vice versa.
Separating Games means that permissions to save all-user settings etc. aren't the same level of access as updating the OS. Most games have the global option for all users separate form the per-user ones these days, but installing into the same library as Windows itself is a bad idea, anyway. You don't want Windows Update wiping out games by mistake.
32/64 operation isn't determined by which folders things load from. Those attributes are in the exe headers, and Windows isn't bad at running mixed-mode if a 32-bit program calls a 64-bit one or vice versa.
QUOTE(ghastley @ Jan 18 2018, 11:53 AM)
*snip*
I'll probably end up making an ESO add-on, and only then get back to earlier games.
WOO HOO !!! Like what?
QUOTE(ghastley @ Sep 30 2018, 07:54 PM)
Finally flipped the switch and let this one loose on the Nexus..
The full mod needs a new game, and I expect that a lot will try to install it on top of a save at the exit from the starter dungeon, and wonder why it doesn't work.
The light version, where it all just appears into an empty small house, will still confuse many, as you have to open the console and type in the setstage command.
Put in a "Read Me?" (not that 98% of the users won't read it anyway,
)QUOTE(ghastley @ Oct 9 2018, 01:46 PM)
I don't ever install games in Program Files folders. I keep those for the OS itself, and install directly into a Games folder. I go a step further, and I have C:\Users re-directed to D:\Users, so the saves etc. go on that drive. That's because C is a SSD, with limited capacity compared with D being a good old spinning disk, with many times the space.
Separating Games means that permissions to save all-user settings etc. aren't the same level of access as updating the OS. Most games have the global option for all users separate form the per-user ones these days, but installing into the same library as Windows itself is a bad idea, anyway. You don't want Windows Update wiping out games by mistake.
32/64 operation isn't determined by which folders things load from. Those attributes are in the exe headers, and Windows isn't bad at running mixed-mode if a 32-bit program calls a 64-bit one or vice versa.
Yes, my "C" drive is SSD as well; which is why I installed Oblivion on the "E" drive (and also in a "Games" folder; thanks to either you or SubRosa's instructions).
Oblivion worked fine on my laptop; (which was also 64 bit; but didn't have a separate drive, so the "Games" folder was still in the "C" drive).
But on this PC, I had the shop give me the split drives and put only the OS on the C drive where the SSD was; everything else I put on the "E" drive that had a larger (but regular) hard drive.
When I look in the "C" drive, there are program files (as there should be) - but when I look in the "E" drive, the only files there are the ones I've added = (Games, Minion, Teamspeak, ESO Backup, and Unreal Game Engine.
There are no program files at all on the "E" drive, and I wondered if that is why none of my old games have run since I switched to this PC? I thought there should be program files on both hard drive divisions; shouldn't there be?
I've wondered about that for years, but the only time it really makes me want to do something about it is when I want to play one of the Fallout games or pull out Oblivion; Skyrim; or one of their construction sets.
I have three drives on this PC; the C drive; (SSD) the D Drive (recovery) and the E drive; which is where I put everything like screenshots; games; tell apps to install; etc.
** I'd really like to know how to redirect the Users so downloads go to the E drive instead of me having to keep moving everything around, too.
*** Bold: Oh, that is good to know!
Oh gosh, Ghastley - I don't want to hijack your thread, sorry about that.
QUOTE(ghastley @ Oct 9 2018, 01:26 PM)
QUOTE(mALX @ Oct 9 2018, 01:17 PM)
QUOTE(ghastley @ Jun 5 2017, 12:41 PM)
Making the hairdresser tools "wieldable" has been fun. The common knife and fork aren't weapons, just misc items, but they do have provision for blood decals in the nif's. Weapons have to have 1st person meshes (without scabbards) separate from the weapon mesh. Both have blood decal support. The first person mesh is a static, not a weapon, or a misc item. They all have collision boxes, so I've replaced the mesh in a dagger of appropriate size for now. That's giving me some issues with putting them down, as they don't lie flat or on the right side, or ...
The hairbrush is a particular problem, as the natural way to hold one is with the bristles facing inward, but when held in the left hand, they face out. This is because blades face down, rather than in/out. I'm trying to determine if left/right weapons are supported. Spells, which don't need to act differently, do come in left and right varieties, and I haven't figured out why.
Don't they have a rolling pin weapon? Maybe that would work better than the dagger?
The main reason I used the dagger was that it had a clear single edge to the blade to show its orientation. The handles on the brush, comb, etc are flattened and would only be comfortable to hold one way. A rolling pin is radially symmetric, so you can't line things up very easily.
Ah. That might explain why my mod's kitchen weapons didn't work like I hoped, lol.
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